Rick Santorum: Ready to campaign in May

Rick Santorum says his campaign is ready to weather a series of likely primary losses in April against Mitt Romney and has already started eyeing the May races.

“We had a great March. We won a lot of states in March… It’s been a great opportunity. Yet we knew April would be a very tough month for us,” the former Pennsylvania senator told CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday evening from Wisconsin. “This is a series of states — you know, Rhode Island, New York and Connecticut and D.C. and Maryland — these are not conservative states.”

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The GOP presidential hopeful said that Wisconsin “is one that we think we can run well in” Tuesday and the campaign is banking on a win in Pennsylvania at the end of April.

“But we also know that the month of May is rich with delegates and are strong states for us,” Santorum said, where hopes to rack up states like Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina. “Those are the states we know we can get this back, right back to where it is right now, which is a lot closer than what Mitt Romney and the pundits are spinning.”

He added: “This is a very close race and by the end of May, we expect this race to be very close to even.”